Hi, I’m Fabian Faraz Farid.
I turn ideas into software people rely on. Ten years of shipping, from a game studio I founded at thirteen to energy software running across the German power grid.
Where I’ve worked
Soptim AGSoftware DeveloperSep 2024 – Present
Led development of mission-critical energy management software running across Germany’s power grid infrastructure, and served as designated AWS Cloud Security Officer.
- Built the download manager application from the ground up, including library selection and UI/UX design
- Owned cloud security posture on AWS as a member of the internal security team: compliance, threat modelling, infrastructure hardening
- Built a secure large-file upload and download pipeline with end-to-end AWS integration
- Drove adoption of modern React/TypeScript architecture across key product lines
- Serves as the team’s internal go-to person for AI topics, championing AI-assisted development workflows and winning internal hackathon recognition
- React
- TypeScript
- Electron
- AWS
- Tailwind CSS
GuiderSoftware EngineerSep 2022 – Sep 2024
Engineered content delivery infrastructure for a fast-growing knowledge platform, enabling editorial teams to publish at scale.
- Built headless CMS integrations on Contentful and Strapi
- Automated email marketing flows reaching tens of thousands monthly
- Shipped audio versions of written content end to end
- Wired Make.com pipelines that removed manual editorial work
- React
- TypeScript
- Contentful
- Strapi
- Mailchimp
- Make
Demtek GmbHSenior Software EngineerMar 2024 – May 2024
Contracted to deliver high-stakes Vue.js applications for Germany’s industrial elite. Joined mid-sprint and shipped production code with effectively zero ramp-up.
- Delivered for Mercedes-Benz, Continental AG, and NEW
- Built applications for 50hertz’s energy management systems
- Engineered process automation for Ingenium’s business workflows
- Specialised in complex, data-dense UIs for enterprise operators
- Vue.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
adesso SESoftware EngineerOct 2021 – Mar 2024
Joined one of Germany’s leading IT consultancies and became a go-to full-stack developer, taking on technical lead responsibilities within eighteen months.
- Shipped a company-wide time-tracking platform that replaced spreadsheet chaos
- Built a smart-city parking management system deployed across multiple districts
- Full-stack delivery on MEAN stack and Spring Boot
- Ran delivery in Scrum and Kanban across multiple client teams
- Angular
- Java
- Spring Boot
- TypeScript
- MongoDB
Kirrvn · Avec Amxur · All Hers Official · The Driving TeacherFractional CTO, Multi-Brand PortfolioNov 2021 – Dec 2023
Ran technology and growth as fractional CTO/CIO across four independent SME brands at once, each in a different vertical: Kirrvn (home apparel & décor), Avec Amxur (jewelry), All Hers Official (cosmetics, Egypt), and The Driving Teacher (driving school). Sole technical advisor to each founder, from infrastructure to acquisition.
- Architected and launched full Shopify ecosystems for the three e-commerce brands
- Digitised The Driving Teacher end to end, website, local SEO, and paid acquisition
- Ran paid acquisition across Google, Meta, and TikTok above benchmark ROAS
- Produced all brand visuals, motion graphics, and video in-house across all four
- Shopify
- Shopify Liquid
- Google Ads
- Google Business
- Meta
- TikTok
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätLead Software EngineerJul 2020 – Oct 2020
Contracted at the height of COVID-19 to deliver pandemic response infrastructure for one of Germany’s largest research universities. Requirements to production in under six weeks.
- Built a real-time contact tracing system in Spring Boot
- Implemented health status tracking with emergency-service access layers
- Synchronised every entrance point over a real-time network
- Backed the whole system with comprehensive automated testing
- Java
- Spring Boot
- MongoDB
- HTML
- CSS
Comet Cine CenterLead Software EngineerApr 2020 – Jul 2020
Sole architect and developer of a full cinema management platform built on Domain-Driven Design, taken from whiteboard to production.
- Designed the domain model connecting films, halls, and screenings
- Handled booking workflows across simultaneous screening rooms
- Built secure multi-role authentication and staff tooling
- Delivered an interface the team actually wanted to use
- Java
- Spring Boot
- MySQL
- HTML
- CSS
Nova Game StudiosCEO & FounderMay 2015 – May 2019
Founded at thirteen years old. Led a team of developers and artists to design, build, and ship a commercial game. The origin of everything that followed.
- Shipped “Two Men Dungeon”, a local co-op action game with thousands of downloads
- Architected the entire game in Unity and C#, optimised for performance
- Designed and animated every character in Blender
- Built the website, user system, and database from scratch
- Unity
- C#
- Blender
- PHP
- MySQL
My next role
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer React, Next.js, TypeScript, Java/Spring
- Tech Lead / Engineering Lead Architecture, code quality, mentoring
- Solutions Engineer Between customers, product and engineering
- Cloud Security & AI Engineering AWS hardening, LLM integration
Remote in Germany or hybrid in NRW · Düsseldorf · Cologne · Mönchengladbach · German and English teams
What I bring to a team
Frontend Engineering
Pixel-precise interfaces in React, Next.js, Angular, and Vue. Performance-obsessed, animation-first. The kind of frontend that makes engineers at other companies ask how it was built.
AI & Automation
Custom LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, OpenAI and Gemini APIs, Make.com workflows. Automation that removes human bottlenecks and earns back its infrastructure cost.
Systems Architecture
Whiteboard to production platform. Spring Boot and Node services, scalable data models on MongoDB and MySQL, and API design developers actually enjoy consuming.
Cloud Security
AWS Cloud Security Officer for critical energy infrastructure. Compliance frameworks, threat modelling, and hardening for regulated industries where failure is not an option.
Creative Technology
Unity and Unreal game development, Blender 3D, WebGL with Three.js, motion design in GSAP and After Effects. For when standard interfaces are not enough.
Startup CTO
Technical co-founder at four companies. Translating founder vision into shipped software, building teams, and surviving every stage from MVP to scale.
Tools I work with
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- Three.js
- Angular
- Electron
- Vue.js
- Blazor
Backend & data
- MongoDB
- Firebase
- Strapi
- Contentful
- Java
- Spring Boot
- C#
- MySQL
- Sanity
- PHP
Cloud & DevOps
- Git
- AWS
- Docker
- Azure
AI & automation
- OpenAI
- Gemini
- Make
- Python
- PyTorch
Creative & 3D
- Unity
- Unreal Engine
- Figma
- Photoshop
- Premiere Pro
- Illustrator
- After Effects
- Blender
Commerce & growth
- Shopify
- Shopify Liquid
- Google Ads
- Google Business
- Mailchimp
- Meta
- TikTok
Mönchengladbach
Remote in Germany, or hybrid around Düsseldorf, Cologne and Mönchengladbach.
- German Native
- English Fluent
- Arabic Conversational
Apps I built
A little about me
Fabian Faraz Farid built and shipped his first commercial game at thirteen. By the time his peers finished school he had founded a studio, led a team of developers and artists, and served as fractional CTO for several companies at the same time.
He spent years in consulting at adesso SE, building Angular and Spring Boot systems for enterprise clients. Today he works at Soptim AG on energy management software used across the German power grid, where he also serves as AWS Cloud Security Officer.